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Direct linkTijunelis, Viktorija; Satterfield, Teresa; Benki, Jose R. – Hispania, 2013
We report on the service-learning component of a Spanish-language Saturday school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for elementary-aged Spanish-language heritage learners and also examine the newly forming Latino community served by this innovative program. The US Spanish-speaking population is growing throughout the country, resulting in greatly increased…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
Tacelosky, Kathleen – Hispania, 2013
Following observations and interviews with transnational children that have one or more years of school in the United States and are now in school in Mexico, it was determined that the Mexican public school system has no mechanism in place to offer them the support they need. Therefore, I collaborated with Mexican university students to seek…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Foreign Countries, Interviews, College Students
Bugel, Talia – Hispania, 2013
The service-learning Spanish translation course (Spanish 315: "Spanish in the Business World") taught at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne in the fall of 2010 and spring of 2012 provided an ideal context for the students to connect with the Hispanic community in our geographical region. Once the connection through service…
Descriptors: Translation, Service Learning, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Austin, Jennifer; Blume, Maria; Sanchez, Liliana – Hispania, 2013
In this exploratory study of subtractive bilingualism in Spanish-English bilingual children, we present evidence that crosslinguistic influence has a selective effect on heritage first language loss. Differences in feature strength between English and Spanish in interrogative and negative polarity item (NPI) sentences seem to affect the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Syntax, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning
Garcia-Villada, Eduardo – Hispania, 2011
This study investigates children's attitudes and technology use for learning Spanish, and examines the type of technology-enhanced learning activities they enjoy. A survey with two versions was developed to gather attitudes and opinions of 2,220 children in grades K-2 and 3-8 in eight small rural school districts in the Midwest of the United…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Ownership, Access to Computers, Computers
Godsland, Shelley – Hispania, 2010
In 2005 the BBC reported that in reply to a survey conducted by the European Commission, 66% of English respondents indicated that they spoke no language other than their mother tongue. This proportion was far higher than in any other European Union nation taking part but compares fairly favorably with the United States, where one-fourth of adults…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries
